Pay to Leech BitTorrent Sites Raided in Hungary

Several Hungarian BitTorrent and Warez sites have been shut down by the authorities after a stormy raid which led to the confiscation of more than 40 servers (hosting about 250TB of data).The action is in conformity with a growing anti-piracy stand in the country. The fact that there are many "pay to leech" sites running in Hungary just pushed officials into taking quick measures.

"It is difficult to energize police and customs officials to investigate Internet cases because Hungarian court decisions are not a deterrent," says an International Intellectual Property Alliance.

Shortly after the report, Hungarian authorities wanted to prove themselves and raided several BitTorrent trackers among which Bitlove, BitMusic and Indep and also some spam sites. Allegedly ten individuals were arrested, six of them remaining in police custody for further interrogation.

It seems that the reason these sites were targeted expressly is that they were not free. Their members were required to pay for access through premium SMS.